One of the beautiful things about Halo 3 was the ranked playists. You played people at or near your skill level. The system was awesome. Why it was left out of Reach I’ll never understand. But for 4, I think these playlists need to come back, for a number of reasons. 1)I hate playing people who don’t know how to work the controller. The lack of challenge makes the game no fun.
2)I hate playing people above my skill range. There is nothing worse than dropping into the MLG playlist and running into people who were easily 50’s in 3 when I never got out of the 20’s. I get better playing people at or just over my skill level not at 3x my skill level.
3)The ranked playlists had restrictions. I can’ tell you how many games I’ve lost in 3 hours tonight alone running through Rumble Pit and facing parties of 3 or 4. Parties who were working together. Like a team. In a Free For All setting. Things like this didn’t happen in the Halo 3 lone wolves playlist. Because it was made to prevent it. And I’m not saying parties should be banned from FFA. Just make it so parties in Rumble Pit either match other parties, or can’t enter that playlist without a full 8 person group.
As an aside. Keep no bloom. Get rid of Armor Abilities. They slow the game down and crap like Armor Lock, Jetpack, and Sprint just make it possible to erase all your mistakes, and that’s not fair to someone who would win the gunfight if their opponent, who put themselves in a bad position, can just magically get away.